Tweedledum and Tweedledee

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. Two persons or organizations deemed indistinguishable in some way. derogatory
    — The radicals said that Nixon and Humphrey were Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
  2. A pair of people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly. derogatory
    — Some officers were starting to call Edendale's two detective chief inspectors Tweedledum and Tweedledee, because they were rarely seen except when they were sitting alongside each other at the head of a briefing.

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Tweedledum and Tweedledumber

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From Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a pair of identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom.
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